ICE Barbie Lashes Out at Anchor About Her Own Agency’s Stats

CBS News Kristi Noem was cornered into saying that her own department’s statistics were “wrong” in a tense exchange on air Sunday. The Department of Homeland Security secretary was asked on CBS’ Face the Nation what percentage of immigrants taken into custody by ICE had “actually committed a criminal versus just a civil infraction.” “Every single individual has committed a crime, but 70 percent of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes, and crimes that they are charged with or have been convicted of that have come from other countries that are here illegally, first of all, and then they have committed a criminal act while they’ve been here or in their home countries,” Noem responded. Read more at The Daily Beast.